====== Magic Spells & Concepts ======
This is a combined list snapshot of all magical concepts and any spells cast in the Mercyverse across all classifications.

===== How to Read Format =====
**Name of Magical Spell**: Alphabetical plus **Classification** that created and/or used the spell - Link will lead to page of expanded classification details. Major spells will have an individual page with expanded details.\\
  * **IA**: Initial Appearance of Spell (Book or Short Fiction) - Link will lead to series or short fiction summaries and snapshot\\
  * **Characters Affiliated** with the spell: Link will lead to character pages with expanded details.
  * **Spell Description and Effects** (If Known) 

===== A =====
====Attack Spell====
**Attack Spell** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Seeing Eye]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Lin Keller]] **Deceased** \\
[[Tom Franklin]] \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Seeing Eye]]
  * a vile spell that would have induced terrible pain and permanently damaged the person it hit<sup>167</sup>
  * takes a lot of power to feed the spell<sup>167</sup>

====Avoidance Spell====
**Avoidance Spell** | [[Fae]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Uncle Mike]]\\
[[Uncle Mike's Tavern]]\\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * a spell on the tavern to that makes mundane humans avoid it
  * not sure if magic keep graffiti artists away; exterior of the tavern was always pristine
[[Blood Bound]]
  * a subtle spell hurries people along if they stop to outside the tavern

===== B =====
====Binding Spell====
**Binding Spell** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #5: [[Burn Bright]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Anna Cornick]] \\
[[Grandma Daisy Hardesty]] **Deceased** \\
[[Wellesley]]\\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Burn Bright]]
  * blood magic; a cage wrought by witchcraft<sup>191</sup>
  * broken with a kiss<sup>203</sup>
 
===== C ===== 
====Call Down the Moon====
**Call Down the Moon** | [[Werewolf]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Pack Magic]]\\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * Alpha throws back his head and howls; a wolf's song rising from his human throat<sup>268</sup>
  * the eerie sound rose, echoed, and died away into silence, but not an empty silence<sup>268</sup>
  * more like the deadly quiet that precedes the start of the hunt<sup>269</sup>
  * howled again and answered by every werewolf within hearing distance<sup>269</sup>
  * called a third time; the moon's call sang through the trees and it caught the rest of the wolves and forced them into their wolf form<sup>269</sup>
  * cries of agony of those who fought it and the groans of those who didn't<sup>269</sup>
  * Adam stood in the moonlight, which seemed somehow brighter than it had moments ago; opened his eyes and looked at the moon's face; spoke using words<sup>269</sup>
  * didn't speak loudly, but his voice, like his song, spread through the area like a roll of thunder, powerful and unavoidable; and the wolves came<sup>269</sup>
  * less dominant wolves answered the power of the call<sup>269</sup>

====The Change====
**The Change** | [[Werewolf]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Pack Magic]]\\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * any person bitten by a werewolf doesn't turn into another werewolf
  * it takes an attack so vicious that the victim lies near death to allow the magic of the wolf to slip pas the body's immune system
  * usually the victim dies of the wounds or of the Change
  * if they survive then the next full moon find they survived but not as they had been
[[Blood Bound]]
  * give him the power to force his domninion on another group of werewolves<sup>100</sup>


====Cleansing Spell====
**The Change** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Elizaveta Arkadyevna]]\\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * spell to wash away evidence of a crime
  * clean away blood 

===== D =====
====Death Spell|Fae====
**Death Spell** | [[Fae]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]

====Death Spell|Witch====
**Death Spell** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Robert Arkadyevna]]

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * spell gathering death and it bore Adam's name
  * the spell was set in motion; Mercy threw herself in front of it; it shouldn't have worked
  * once a spell is given a name it's sort of like a guided missile rather than a laser beam; it should have moved around her
  * Robert changed the spell to name Mercy; Mercedes whispered the spell satisfied
  * she heard a song; a rhythm to his spell; found herself moving with it, humming the tune softly; music filled her lungs, then head, banking the fire of the pain

====Demon Magic====
**Demon Magic** | [[Demon]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #2: [[Blood Bound]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Blood Bound]]
  * made it impossible for them to escape the cages

===== E =====
====Enthrallment====
**Enthrallment** | [[Vampire]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Lilly]]\\
[[Samuel Cornick]]\\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * marked by a vampire

====Enthrallment Break Spell====
**Enthrallment Break Spell** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Asil and the Not-Date]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Mariposa]] **Deceased**\\
[[Tami]] **Deceased**\\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Asil and the Not-Date]]
  * a spell to break an enthrallment<sup>226</sup>
  * this breaks the hold of a black witch but works on other enthrallments; vampire, wyrm<sup>226</sup>

====Expectation Spell====
**Expectation Spell** | [[Werewolf]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Adam Hauptman]]\\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[River Marked]]
  * let people see what they expect to see; saw a werewolf they would think it was a dog<sup>76</sup>
  * darkness helps but the pack magic works in broad daylight too<sup>79</sup>

===== F =====
====Find Me Spell====
**Find Me Spell** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Seeing Eye]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Moira Keller]]\\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Seeing Eye]]
  * set out "find me" spells so that mundane customers in distress could find her since she didn't advertise<sup>138</sup>

====Fireproofing Spell|Fae====
**Fireproofing Spell** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Ariana Cornick]] \\
[[Adam Cornick]] \\
[[Honey Jorgenson]] \\
[[Mary Jo]] \\
[[Paul]] \\
[[Samuel Cornick]] \\
[[Warren Smith]] \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Night Broken]]
  * she can command earth, air, fire, and water; that she can command fire means she can protect some<sup>305</sup>
  * doesn't know how many she can spell; unlikely no more than ten but at least five<sup>306</sup>
  * can make the invulnerable to heat<sup>306</sup>


====Fireproofing Spell|Witch====
**Fireproofing Spell** | [[Fae]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Elizaveta Arkadyevna]] **Deceased** \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Night Broken]]
  * could have made a spell to make one werewolf resistant to elemental fire magic—would have needed a piece of his hair or fingernails<sup>305</sup>

===== G =====
====Guard Spell====
**Guard Spell** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * for keeping things they valued safe; sometimes used in conjunction with power circles<sup>234</sup>
 
====Guardian====
**Guardian** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Mariposa]] **Deceased **\\
[[Sarai]] **Deceased** \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * the [[Mariposa Family Witches]] greatest spell; thought to be lost when when they were eliminated
  * to have guardians on their grounds, great beasts who patrolled and killed for them—but never needed food or drink
  * rumored that they made them from living creatures—they had a menagerie
  * such powerful spells are never made without blood and death
  * guardian is a charismatic name for such abominations
  * even at the peak of their power they'd never been known to make a guardian from a werewolf<sup>241</sup>
  * they were destroyed every seven years to prevent them from having a presence outside of their creator's call
  * using a werewolf resulted in not a true guardian spell; a binding that allowed the witch to share in the werewolf's immortality
  * guardians were supposed to be obedient, incapable of thinking for themselves
  * did not survive their creator's death

====Glamour====
[[Fae Glamour]]
**Glamour** | [[Fae]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]

===== H =====
====Hide-me Spell====
**Hide-me Spell** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * witches could hide in plain sight if they had some sort of hold on you<sup>238</sup>

====Hot and Cold Spell====
**Hot and Cold Spell** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Seeing Eye]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Moira Keller]]\\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Seeing Eye]]
  * closing senses to the outside world, she reached into her well of power and drew out a bucketful an threw it out in a circle around and called to the essence of the person she was looking for<sup>151</sup>
  * vibrations of power<sup>151</sup>
  * left hand working the spell<sup>151</sup>
  * could see the faint traces that the person left behind<sup>151</sup>
  * finding something of the person with traces left on it, like gum and saliva, pulled toward their source<sup>159</sup>

====Hunter's Magic====
**Hunter's Magic** | [[Vampire]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #10: [[Silence Fallen]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Silence Fallen]]
  * met eyes with prey; caught them in order to feed<sup>335</sup>

====Hunting Song====
**Hunting Song** | [[Werewolf]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Fire Touched]]

===== I =====
====Illusions====
**Illusions** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * were among the very basic tenets of witchcraft<sup>174</sup>

====Imprisoning Spell====
**Imprisoning Spell** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * are pretty basic<sup>189</sup>

====Influence Spell====
**Influence Spell** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #6: [[Wild Sign]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Sheldon Underwood (Dr.)]] \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Wild Sign]]
  * a weak construct<sup>214</sup>
  * precast; used often enough to make up the trouble of setting runes under the oriental carpet or on the client chairs; but not strong enough to penetrate the protections [[Charles Cornick]] set<sup>220</sup>

===== J =====
===== K =====
====The Kiss====
**The Kiss** | [[Vampire]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Marsilia]]\\
[[Samuel Cornick]]\\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * bespelled by a vampire bite
  * some do die of the Kiss; probably no permanent harm to a werewolf
  * a tranquilizer<sup>215</sup>
  * possible that a submissive werewolf might have come out of it like any other tranquilized animal, groggy and quiet<sup>215</sup>
  * only some wolves became problematic; came out fighting with their wolf ready to attack, just as if they'd been trapped<sup>215</sup>
[[Silence Fallen]]
  * the Kiss doesn't always work; it was almost impossible to take a werewolf the way they could humans because of the pack bonds<sup>71</sup>

===== L =====
====Look-Away Spell====
**Look-Away Spell** | [[Vampire]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #10: [[Silence Fallen]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Stefan Uccello]]\\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Silence Fallen]]
  * keeps people away<sup>35</sup>
  * most vampires can cast something something like that<sup>35</sup>

====Look-Past-Me Spell====
**Look-Past-Me Spell** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Seeing Eye]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Moira Keller]]\\
[[Tom Franklin]] \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Seeing Eye]]
  * murmured a few words and then put her fingers against his throat<sup>161</sup>
  * a sudden shock, like a static charge on steroids hit him—when it was over, her fingers were hot on his pulse<sup>161</sup>
  * won't make someone invisible, but it'll make people want to overlook you<sup>161</sup>
  * any witch with a a modicum of sensitivity to auras would have felt him; but no one seemed to notice him<sup>165</sup>

===== M =====
====Master Vampire Rage====
**Master Vampire Rage** | [[Vampires]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Marsilia]]\\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * high pitched noise and a hand gesture; inhuman motion and scream
  * causes vampires and others in proximity to fall to the floor incapacitated 
  * magic results in stealing breathe and motion and causes hurt

====Moonstruck====
**Moonstruck** | [[Werewolf]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Werewolf Moonstruck]] **Deceased** \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * can feel the full moon coming<sup>26</sup>
  * when the moon comes you can't stop the change; dreamy; sways back and forth<sup>26</sup>
  * can happen to newly made wolves who lose control<sup>26</sup>
  * held in moon dreams<sup>26</sup>
  * if you were a dominant wolf and you did go moonstruck, you took everyone who was less dominant with you<sup>76</sup>
  * no control; would kill anyone near them<sup>188</sup> 

===== N =====
====Necromancy|Vampire====
**Necromancy** | [[Vampire]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Fire Touched]]

====Necromancy|Witch====
**Necromancy** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Fire Touched]]
===== O =====
===== P =====
====Power Circles===
**Power Circles** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #1: [[Cry Wolf]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Cry Wolf]]
  * some witches used them to set guard spells to keep things they value safe, and others used them to store power for drawing upon later<sup>234</sup>

====Privacy Cloak====
**Privacy Cloak** | [[Vampire]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Stefan Uccello]]

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * made a gesture like a grand stage magican; throwing his hands up and tossing his head<sup>165</sup>
  * a fine cloak of real magic settled around them; tasted of earth and darker things<sup>165</sup>
  * the spell shields a conversation for privacy; because there are things that hear very well in the night<sup>166</sup>

===== Q =====
===== R =====
====Restraining Spell====
**Restraining Spell** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Alpha & Omega Series]] #6: [[Wild Sign]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Daniel Green]] \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Wild Sign]]
  * tattoo; inked spell 
  * brutal magic used to subdue and restrain with greater sureness than a steel chain<sup>210</sup>

===== S =====
====Shield====
**Shield** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Seeing Eye]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Moira Keller]]\\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Seeing Eye]]
  * a magic shield<sup>165</sup>
  * can tie someone else's essence to it to take the damage of a spell<sup>165</sup>
  * spells slid off the protections without harm<sup>166</sup>


====Silence====
**Silence** | [[Werewolf]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #1: [[Moon Called]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Columbia Basin Pack]] | [[Pack Magic]]\\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Moon Called]]
  * wolves have little magic; a few magics that allow them to stay hidden<sup>202</sup>
  * eyes closed and their mouths moving in the chant that brought Silence upon all that stood within their circle<sup>202</sup>
  * to keep a battle from disturbing anyone; the pack would not willingly break the Silence<sup>202</sup>
  * moving or stopping the chant would have ruined the spell of Silence<sup>204</sup>
  * it allows sounds to be absorbed by the pack's spell casting<sup>204</sup>

====Stealing Will====
**Stealing Will** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[In Red, with Pearls]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Nadia Popov]] **Deceased**\\
[[Harper Sullivan (Dr.)]] \\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[In Red, with Pearls]]
  * enforcing their will on a person<sup>347</sup>
  * black-magic voice<sup>347</sup>
  * broke something inside a person<sup>347</sup>
  * suggestions planted might fade but the she'd broken him, and that was permanent<sup>348</sup>

===== T =====
====Trasmutation Spell====
**Transmutation Spell** | [[Witch]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Seeing Eye]]\\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Coranda Family Witches]] \\
[[Moira Keller]]\\

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Seeing Eye]]
  * most of the good transmutation spells had been lost with the Coranda family in the seventeenth century; rude people neeed to be turned into frogs; or pigs<sup>138</sup>

====Truth Spell====
**Truth Spell** | [[Vampire]]\\
**IA**: [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #2: [[Blood Bound]] \\
__**Affiliated:**__ \\
[[Wulfe]]

__**Spell Description & Effects:**__ \\
[[Blood Bound]]
  * appropriate that the vampire's truth spells would demand blood

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